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DOHNANYI String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3

It is 50 years since Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Song for piano and orchestra was heard frequently in concert...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012

DEBUSSY String Quartet, Op 10. Premier Trio

Here are the first fruits of the Brodsky Quartet’s 40th-anniversary alliance with Chandos: an original and revealing Debussy coupling and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012

DAWES Chamber Music

Independent labels are invaluable for promoting lesser known composers, as Omnibus Classics does here for Julian Dawes. Dawes, in his...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2012

COUPERIN Apothéoses

It is a neat idea to bring together Couperin’s complementary celebrations of the competing national styles of the mid-Baroque, two...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2012

BRAHMS Sonatas for Viola and Piano, Op 120

The Op 120 Sonatas, in their viola-and-piano guise (Brahms originally wrote them for clarinet, later adapting the part to suit...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2012

BERG Chamber Music with Piano

Gunnar Berg (1909-89) was a proponent of total serialism, apparently the first in Denmark, who unsurprisingly attended Messiaen’s composition classes...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2012

BEETHOVEN; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets

While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012

GOULD Piano Sonata. 5 Short Pieces GULDA Play Piano Play

Sasha Grynyuk’s recording debut is as idiosyncratic as it is dazzling. The reverse of the well-tried and familiar, it opts...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012

FRANCK Organ Works

For many, César Franck’s reputation as a composer of organ music rests firmly on just a dozen pieces, the ‘Big...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2012

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1-6, BWV1007-1012

The inclusion of a DVD with Pieter Wispelwey’s third recording of the Bach Suites is an insightful bonus. The Dutch...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2012

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